Posted by Jost on June 11, 2006, at 1:48:29
In reply to AhHHhHh!!!, posted by Karolina on June 11, 2006, at 0:51:05
Karolina, from reading psychoanalytic journals, I know that there are many patients out there who have sexual phantasies about their therapists--and therapists who have fantasies about their patients (although it usually isn't considered proper practice to reveal those). Often therapists will be able to to use the discussion of the person's fantasties and desires very productively.
Of course, the fantasies can't be acted on, but any therapist worth her or his salt should be able to work with this in a helpful, sensitive and perhaps very enlivening way.
If you wanted to be especially sensitive about your therapist's response, you could be discrete in first introducing the subject, and let him get used to it--or if he seems comfortable take the cues from there.
I would certainly hope that you could speak about them, and not be greeted with a defensive or threatened, or in any way disapproving attitude. hey--it used to be the mother' s milk of psychoanalysis--
It is important for your comfort too not to feel too let down that they can't be acted on-- and to feel affirmed by him--and also to see them as a source of potential strength and fulfillment in your life, and a sign of vitality in you.
Just a thought,
Jost
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